Is consolidation reducing the burden, or re-loading it?
Consolidation only helps if it actually lowers what a borrower carries. Trended data, the full credit picture and an honest affordability read tell you whether you are solving the problem or setting it up to recur.
The question a snapshot can't answer
Debt consolidation is sold as relief, and for the right borrower it is. But a borrower who consolidates and then quietly re-runs their cleared cards is worse off within a year, and so is the lender who funded it.
A single credit report cannot tell the two apart. It shows balances today, not the pattern that produced them, so it cannot say whether this borrower is genuinely deleveraging or simply moving debt around.
You also owe the borrower a decision that is actually in their interest, and an arrangement they can keep. An unaffordable consolidation loan is a worse outcome than the debts it replaced.
The job is to see the direction of travel, understand the full picture, and set the loan against real affordability, so consolidation does what it promises.
The data that fits
See the pattern, not just the balances.
Trended data shows whether the borrower is genuinely paying down or re-loading, which is the whole decision here.
The full credit picture: what is owed, to whom, and how it is being managed.
Size the consolidation loan to what the borrower can actually afford, read against open banking.
Through Credit Canary
TrueVision shows the direction of travel, CallReport gives the full picture, and TU Affordability, confirmed against open banking where needed, sets the loan at a sustainable level. Your decisioning weighs the trend as a rule, not a hunch, so you lend where consolidation genuinely helps and decline where it would only reset the cycle.
One integration, at a better rate, with trended data at the centre of the decision rather than bolted on.
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Credit data for debt consolidation lenders: FAQs
Because the decision turns on whether a borrower is genuinely deleveraging or re-loading cleared credit, which only trended data reveals.
A report shows balances now. It cannot show the pattern that produced them, which is what distinguishes a good consolidation from a bad one.
TU Affordability sizes it to what the borrower can afford, read against open banking where the margin is tight.
Yes. Through Credit Canary, the trend becomes a rule in your engine rather than a manual judgement.
Lend where consolidation actually helps
Tell us how you assess consolidation, and we will quote trended data, the credit report and affordability on one integration, at a better rate.